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Transubstantiation

The bread and wine become Christ's body and blood while still looking like bread and wine

Transubstantiation, defined as Catholic doctrine and articulated by Aquinas after the Fourth Lateran Council, teaches that the substance of the bread and wine is changed into the body and blood of Christ while their outward appearances remain. The Orthodox affirm a real presence but reject the term and its Aristotelian framing, and most Protestant traditions reject both the term and the doctrine, even where they affirm Christ's presence.

How it traveled

  1. Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90)
    Paris · 1274
    explains
  2. Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church
    Geneva · 1564
    challenges

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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) — Question. 75 - OF THE CHANGE OF BREAD AND WINE INTO THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST (EIGHT ARTICLES) — part 3↗explains

Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) · Thomas Aquinas

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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) — Question. 75 - OF THE CHANGE OF BREAD AND WINE INTO THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST (EIGHT ARTICLES) — part 4↗explains

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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) — Question. 75 - OF THE CHANGE OF BREAD AND WINE INTO THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST (EIGHT ARTICLES) — part 8↗explains

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Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church — CHAPTER 17. - OF THE LORD’S SUPPER, AND THE BENEFITS CONFERRED BY IT — part 7↗challenges

Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church · John Calvin

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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) — Question. 75 - OF THE CHANGE OF BREAD AND WINE INTO THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST (EIGHT ARTICLES) — part 5↗explains

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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) — Question. 75 - OF THE CHANGE OF BREAD AND WINE INTO THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST (EIGHT ARTICLES) — part 6↗explains

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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) — Question. 76 - OF THE WAY IN WHICH CHRIST IS IN THIS SACRAMENT (EIGHT ARTICLES) — part 1↗explains

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Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church — CHAPTER 17. - OF THE LORD’S SUPPER, AND THE BENEFITS CONFERRED BY IT — part 1↗challenges

Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church · John Calvin

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Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church — CHAPTER 17. - OF THE LORD’S SUPPER, AND THE BENEFITS CONFERRED BY IT — part 6↗challenges

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Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church — CHAPTER 17. - OF THE LORD’S SUPPER, AND THE BENEFITS CONFERRED BY IT — part 9↗challenges

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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) — Question. 75 - OF THE CHANGE OF BREAD AND WINE INTO THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST (EIGHT ARTICLES) — part 1↗explains

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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) — Question. 75 - OF THE CHANGE OF BREAD AND WINE INTO THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST (EIGHT ARTICLES) — part 2↗explains

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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) — Question. 75 - OF THE CHANGE OF BREAD AND WINE INTO THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST (EIGHT ARTICLES) — part 7↗explains

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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) — Question. 76 - OF THE WAY IN WHICH CHRIST IS IN THIS SACRAMENT (EIGHT ARTICLES) — part 2↗explains

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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) — Question. 77 - OF THE ACCIDENTS WHICH REMAIN IN THIS SACRAMENT (EIGHT ARTICLES) — part 2↗explains

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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) — Question. 77 - OF THE ACCIDENTS WHICH REMAIN IN THIS SACRAMENT (EIGHT ARTICLES) — part 4↗explains

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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) — Question. 77 - OF THE ACCIDENTS WHICH REMAIN IN THIS SACRAMENT (EIGHT ARTICLES) — part 5↗explains

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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) — Question. 77 - OF THE ACCIDENTS WHICH REMAIN IN THIS SACRAMENT (EIGHT ARTICLES) — part 6↗explains

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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) — Question. 78 - OF THE FORM OF THIS SACRAMENT (SIX ARTICLES) — part 6↗explains

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Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) — Question. 80 - OF THE USE OR RECEIVING OF THIS SACRAMENT IN GENERAL (TWELVE ARTICLES) — part 3↗explains

Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90) · Thomas Aquinas

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